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The Behemoth in no great hurry.

Those of you looking forward to The Behemoth's Castle Crashers might want to clear your mouths for a sharp intake of whatever's floating in front of your face: it's not coming out until 2008.

That's according to a report over at Joystiq, who caught up with developer Dan Paladin during GDC and were told the game had "about a year of development left". Curses!

And who to curse? Microsoft. Apparently the company's decision to increase the file-size allowance for Xbox Live Arcade titles encourage The Behemoth to go back in and do more than they originally intended.

Oh well, you can always play Alien Hominid HD instead. And there's a Castle Crashers trailer over on Eurogamer TV if you're curious as to why we're so keen.

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Xerx3s #1 5 years ago

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WTF?! I thought it would be soon! I was really looking forward to this.

Edited by 1 at 12/03/07 @ 08:25
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Scimarad #2 5 years ago

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I'd never heard of it but after following those links I am NOW looking forward to it
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mkreku #3 5 years ago

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Haha, tiny ultra-violent knights!
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manic_mouse #4 5 years ago

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Why is this taking like 2 years to make?
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morriss #5 5 years ago

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How was your holiday, Mugwum? Did you miss us?
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Kazzahdrane #6 5 years ago

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Guaranteed buy for me as long as it's even half as fun as the trailers suggest. Shame we have to wait so long, but it's not like there aren't other games to play that I've still not touched
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Beano #7 5 years ago

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What's the point of small games if they still take 2 years to make?
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Rirekon #8 5 years ago

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@ Beano; They cost less
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MadMirko #9 5 years ago

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What's the point of small games if they still take 2 years to make?

Maybe that's what developers where talking about when they said the HD era would let development costs explode. Everything just takes longer.

Maybe they just should release what they have had planned for the old limit and do the rest as an expansion pack.
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Beano #10 5 years ago

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"They cost less "

Well... when games take longer they are more expensive.

Yes, I'm aware the CC team is far smaller than for "modern" full-blown games... but my point is that's it silly that a small game like CC takes two years.

Unless the developers are lazy and/or drunk

"Maybe that's what developers where talking about when they said the HD era would let development costs explode. Everything just takes longer. "

CC is obviously a "old gen" game (which is good) with 2D HD visuals... HD resolution does not define a "HD era game"

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kissthestick #11 5 years ago

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i guess the limit was an issue
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Beano #12 5 years ago

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"i guess the limit was an issue"

The new 150MB limit?

In that case they should simply publish the game on PSN
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MadMirko #13 5 years ago

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HD resolution does not define a "HD era game"

It pretty much does. What else would?
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Beano #14 5 years ago

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"It pretty much does. What else would?"

Scope, AI, physics, 3D models/environment complexity, etc. etc.... a plain old-school 2D game with 720p resolution is not what MS (and others) means when they talk about "the HD era". That should be pretty obvious.
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Beano #15 5 years ago

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It's delayed and not cancelled... just to be anal, sorry
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capcom23 #16 5 years ago

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It's a good thing that they've delayed this game. The xbox live arcade sizelimit is 3x bigger. So more levels, enemies, weapons and better soundquality are possible. Can't wait!
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MadMirko #17 5 years ago

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Scope, AI, physics, 3D models/environment complexity, etc. etc.... a plain old-school 2D game with 720p resolution is not what MS (and others) means when they talk about "the HD era". That should be pretty obvious.

Oh my..., well then, good luck on your planet!
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Beano #18 5 years ago

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LOL... riiight
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NthSimulachum #19 5 years ago

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couldn't they get one more person on the team, thus reducing dev time to about half a month?
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